This weekend near Chicago, at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, families will be able to view a demonstration in dog sledding. It’s just the kind of thing I would bring the kids to see if I was living in Chicago. Go check it out, Chicago readers!
Since we are lucky [...]
Most days I love Calgary but today I’m wondering why the heck we ever moved to this miserable part of the world. It’s 20 degrees below zero in Calgary today — right now, as I write this, in the middle of the afternoon. That’s -20 degree Fahrenheit, or about -29 degrees Celsius. Any way you [...]
I’m sitting here at the computer enjoying the smell of turkey and stuffing coming from the kitchen and the warmth of a fire going in the fireplace. Outside, it snowed this morning but it is cozy here in the house. I can hear the sounds of family in the background. They are alternating between friendly [...]
So proud of myself today. Last night, after my kids went to bad following a fun evening of Halloween parties and trick-or-treating, I only ate one Reese’s Cup, which is among my favorite candies. In Canada, they are called “Reese.” Is that why I only ate one? It’s easy to eat two — or seven [...]
When we moved to Canada, meeting people and making friends was at the top of the priority list for myself and my kids. I knew from moving from Illinois to Texas in 2000 that friends were the key to a smooth transition. It didn’t matter whether they were friends from school, church, play groups, Bunco [...]
There are about three dozen different things I should be doing around the house or on my web sites right now but what am I doing? Printing Kate Middleton paper dolls. In case you haven’t heard (ha!), tomorrow morning is the big Royal Wedding and, while I’m a bit sick of all the pre-wedding [...]
It was already going to be a very fun Fat Tuesday today because I had plans to have lunch at a good friend’s house for our monthly book club meeting. She is a Louisiana native so, of course, the lunch was Mardi Gras theme with beads and gumbo. She was missing the King Cake (darn!), [...]
My husband is in Houston for work today. Houston or, more accurately, Sugar Land is our first home away from home. It’s the city where we bought our first house. It’s where my daughter was born, where my son learned to ride a bike and where we have many, many dear friends. It’s also home [...]
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